Lenz at NMRA 2000 National Convention

Lenz GmbH at the NMRA 2000 National Convention

The Lenz booth was a busy place this summer as people came in to see and try the new Set-01 Version3 . Below is a photo tour of the happenings at the National Model Railroad Convention in San Jose.

Bernd Lenz Receives NMRA 2000 Distinguished Service Award

Bernd Lenz received the NMRA Distinguished Service Award from the National Model Railroad Association. at its 2000 convention in San Jose. The formal presentation was on the USS Hornet during the convention dinner of over 1100 NMRA attendees.

The award was given in appreciation for Mr. Lenz's ingenuity in creating his DCC technology and his generosity in freely giving his DCC technology to the NMRA. Bernd Lenz gave the technology unencumbered with patents, so that the NMRA DCC Working Group could develop the DCC Standards and Recommended Practices. He was nominated by DCC operators, other DCC industry businesses and NMRA volunteers from around the country to show their appreciation.

Seen in this photo giving Bernd Lenz their congratulations, are out-going President, Bob Charles and new President, Allen Pollock

July 24, 2000 Atlas announces their new Atlas Master DCC System and their new Dual Mode decoder. These Atlas products are manufactured by Lenz Elektoniks to their specifications. The Atlas Master DCC System is a member of the XpressNet family. All Atlas products will be NMRA Conformance tested. For more details information contact Atlas.

Debbie Ames, from the Lenz Agency was joined by the crew from Foothill Models, Jerry Kitts and his son, Scott. We operated N-Scale, HO, Large-Scale and O-scale, and S-scale in the booth this year. Most questions revolved around decoder features and our new features on version 3. Thank you to the many Digital plus users who came by. We look forward to seeing more of you next year in St. Louis.

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On Thursday, the DCC Round table, was well attended by manufacturers, and the DCC Working group. The discussion was moderated by Ray DeBlick from Convention 2000 Chair.. Manufacturers on the panel included Zana Ireland from Digitrax, Matt Katzer from KAM Industries, Jim Scorse from NorthCoast Engineering, Don Wangrow and Karl Kobel from Wangrow Electronics, Steve Domingas from Soundtraxx, and Bernd Lenz from Lenz Elektoniks. NMRA working group was represented by Brian Barnt and Rutger Friberg.